Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!
David cried out with fervency, knowing that God hears the earnest prayer of faith. He desired above all that his prayers ascend before God like incense and the evening sacrifice, a spiritual offering that pleases Him far more than the loudness of his voice.
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Commenting on Psalm 141:1-10
Keep me from, the snares which they have laid for me. He had before asked, in Ps 141:3, that the door of his mouth might be kept; but his prayer now grows into "Keep me." He seems more in trouble about covert temptation than concerning open attacks. Brave men do not dread battle, but they hate secret plots.
David welcomes reproof from the righteous as a kindness and a means of grace. We must desire correction for whatever is amiss in us, and receive it not with resentment but as a token of love that works toward our cure and keeps us from the dreadful judgment of being left alone in sin.
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Commenting on Psalm 141:5-10